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3 S. St John, The Life of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, p.127.

  4 Ibid., p.124.

  5 J. Templer, The Private Letters of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., Rajah of Sarawak, Vol. I, p.244.

  6 Ibid., p.255.

  7 St John, op. cit., p.133.

  8 Basil Brooke Papers, Rhodes House, Oxford, MSS Pac.s.90, Box 1, File 1.

  9 Ibid., Box 5 item 6.

  10 Ibid., Vol. IV, f.57.

  11 Ibid., Vol. IV, f.56.

  12 E. Hahn, James Brooke of Sarawak, p.127.

  13 H. McDougall, Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak, p.113.

  14 G. Jacob, The Raja of Sarawak, Vol. I, p.224.

  15 Jacob, The Raja of Sarawak, Vol. II, p.24.

  16 Ibid., p.25.

  17 Templer, The Private Letters of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., Rajah of Sarawak, Vol. III, p.60.

  18 Jacob, op. cit., p.2.

  19 St John, op. cit., p.212.

  20 Templer, The Private Letters of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., Rajah of Sarawak, Vol. II, p.292.

  21 St John, op. cit., p.213.

  22 Jacob, The Raja of Sarawak, Vol. II, p.2.

  23 McDougall, op. cit., p.23.

  24 G. Jacob, The Raja of Sarawak, Vol. I, p.376.

  Chapter Ten

  1 G. Jacob, The Raja of Sarawak, Vol. II, p.46.

  2 S. St John, The Life of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, p.239.

  3 Jacob, op. cit., p.77.

  4 Ibid., p.79.

  5 A. Ward, Rajah’s Servant, p.51.

  6 Jacob, op. cit., p.83.

  7 St John, op. cit., p.250.

  8 Jacob, op. cit., p.161.

  9 N. Tarling, The Burthen, the Risk and the Glory, p.186.

  10 Public Record Office, FO12/19–20.

  11 St John, op. cit., p.270.

  Chapter Eleven

  1 G. Jacob, The Raja of Sarawak, Vol. II, p.187.

  2 S. St John, The Life of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, p.274.

  3 Jacob, op. cit., p.225.

  4 N. Tarling, The Burthen, the Risk and the Glory, p.183.

  5 Ibid., p.194.

  6 H. McDougall, Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak, p.118.

  7 C. Bunyon, Memoirs of Francis Thomas McDougall and Harriette his Wife, p.128.

  8 Ibid., p.130.

  Chapter Twelve

  1 S. St John, The Life of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, p.296.

  2 Ibid., p.298.

  3 M. Saint, A Flourish for the Bishop and Brooke’s Friend Grant, p.71.

  4 St John, op. cit., p.300.

  5 Saint, op. cit., p.64.

  6 H. McDougall, Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak, p.133.

  7 E. Hahn, James Brooke of Sarawak, p.217.

  8 L. Helms, Pioneering in the Far East, p.183.

  9 McDougall, op. cit., p.143.

  10 Ibid., p.151.

  11 G. Jacob, The Raja of Sarawak, Vol. II, p.235.

  12 Ibid., p.241.

  13 Hahn, op. cit., p.219.

  14 Helms, op. cit., p.213.

  15 St John, op. cit., p.319.

  16 Jacob, op. cit., p.245.

  17 Ibid., p.249.

  18 Hahn, op. cit., p.221

  Chapter Thirteen

  1 S. St John, The Life of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, p.320.

  2 G. Jacob, The Raja of Sarawak, Vol. II, p.263.

  3 Basil Brooke Papers, Rhodes House, Oxford, MSS Pac.s.90, Vol. 2A.

  4 Ibid.

  5 Ibid.

  6 Ibid.

  7 Ibid., Vol. 2A, f.120.

  8 Basil Brooke Papers, Vol. 2A.

  9 Ibid., Box I/I, File I, f.146.

  10 Ibid., Box I/I, File I, f.147.

  11 M. Saint, A Flourish for the Bishop and Brooke’s Friend Grant, p.100.

  12 E. Hahn, James Brooke of Sarawak, p.226.

  13 Ibid., p.227.

  14 Ibid., p.25.

  15 E. Healey, Lady Unknown, p.126.

  Chapter Fourteen

  1 O. Rutter, Rajah Brooke and Baroness Burdett-Coutts, p.64.

  2 C. Brooke, Ten Years in Sarawak, Vol. I., p.336.

  3 Ibid., p.338.

  4 Ibid., p.353.

  5 S. St John, The Life of Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, p.320.

  6 E. Hahn, James Brooke of Sarawak, p.245.

  7 St John, op. cit., p.350.

  8 J. Walker, ‘This Peculiar Acuteness of Feeling’, Borneo Research Bulletin, 1998.

  9 James Brooke to Hannah Brown, British Library, BL, Add. 45275.

  10 Ibid., f.143.

  11 Ibid., f.148.

  12 Ibid., f.150.

  13 Basil Brooke Papers, Vol. V, f.396.

  14 Ibid., Vol. XV, f.64.

  15 Ibid.

  16 Walker, op. cit.

  Chapter Fifteen

  1 J. Brooke, The Bishop of Labuan, a Vindication, p.10.

  2 Basil Brooke Papers, Vol. III, f.318.

  3 M. Saint, A Flourish for the Bishop and Brooke’s Friend Grant, p.223.

  4 C. Bunyon, Memoirs of Francis Thomas McDougall and Harriette his Wife, p.245.

  5 Saint, op. cit., p.225.

  6 Ibid., p.114.

  7 Bunyon, op. cit., p.234.

  8 Ibid., p.245.

  9 N. Tarling, The Burthen, the Risk and the Glory, p.427.

  10 Basil Brooke Papers, Vol. V, f.488.

  11 Ibid., Vol. III.

  12 Saint, op. cit., p.233.

  13 Ibid., p.142.

  14 Basil Brooke Papers., Vol. II, f.155.

  15 Tarling, op. cit., p.388.

  16 C. Brooke, Ten Years in Sarawak, Vol. I, p.xii.

  17 Tarling, op. cit., p.429.

  18 G. Jacob, The Raja of Sarawak, Vol. II, p.367.

  19 P.F. Tidman, Monthly Packet, 14 September 1874.

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